Hoover City Schools
Melanie Haynes, a technology integration coach for Hoover City Schools in Alabama, was starting with a clean slate in undertaking an artificial intelligence project with a group of fifth-graders.
What Haynes and the students created was a website chatbot that showed how different foods and activities affect the human heart. As users clicked on food or activity choices, the Healthy Heart Chatbot described the healthiness of their choice, while an accompanying video showed students demonstrating on a heart-pump model the food or activity’s effect on blood flow.
Haynes sees the project as just a beginning for herself, as well as for other educators in her district who are hungry to adapt traditional instructional practice for modern times.